Courses

This fun 12 Lesson Children’s Sight-reading Course teaches many important concepts with each concept being backed up by a real song or two! This course will get you or your child on the road to being able to read music. Recommended ages are 3 and up.

This 12 lesson course has 2+ hours of video instruction time and 50+ pages of learning. It is great for beginner to intermediate keyboardists who want to learn how the organ works from the beginning and how to play it. You need to have a solid mastery of the notes of the keyboard as well as major and minor chords.

This is our very first piano course. It is for beginner to intermediates. It will teach you all of your major and minor chords as well as introduce you to a few substitution chords (suspended 2 and minor 7ths). You will learn to play both fast and slow songs and each concept will be taught along with one or two real church songs! You will learn everything described in the course outline below as well as much more.

This fun 12 Lesson Bass Guitar Course teaches many important concepts with each concept being backed up by a real church song or two! This course will give your playing a boost of confidence, a new sound, and it will help you to understand how music actually works.

Check out the lessons below and see if you already know everything that is taught!

Upon purchase, you will immediately receive an email confirmation with a link and password to access your course so you can start learning NOW.

This fun 12 Lesson Drum Course is going to teach you how to play the drums! The techniques and lessons taught here can be applied to any genre, but they are specifically designed with the church/gospel/Pentecostal musician in mind. This lessons teach many important concepts with each concept being backed up by a real church song or two or three! These lessons will give your playing a boost of confidence, a new sound, and it will help you to understand how playing the drums really works!

This fun 12 Lesson Guitar Course teaches many important concepts with each concept being backed up by a real church song or two! This course will give your playing a boost of confidence, a new sound, and it will help you to understand how music actually works.

This 12 lesson course has 2+ hours of video instruction time and 50+ pages of learning. It is great for beginner to intermediate keyboardists who want to train their mind and their ear in the six main numbers of Musical Roman Numeral System – which is the key to learning to play by ear and understand music. You will also learn the 3 main types of 7th chords and how to play them in every key. You need to have a solid mastery of the notes of the keyboard as well as major and minor chords.

This course teaches suspended, augmented, diminished, 6th, minor 6th, augmented 7th, and half-diminished 7th chords as well as the major pentatonic scales, whole tone scales and additional I to IV, I to V and ii to V ear training. Many example songs are taught along the way.

This course will teach you how to play fast songs. You will learn vamps, passing chords, left hand walking bass lines, right-hand chords, fills and runs, and much more! Well-known example songs will be taught along the way for each concept.

This course will teach you how to play and substitute into your playing eleventh, minor eleventh, thirteenth, walking thirteenth and dominant 9add13 chords. It will also introduce how to play left hand chords with right hand advanced fills. Examples songs will be taught to solidify each new concept!

This course will teach you how to use your ear to figure out what key a song is being played in and how to determine what chords are being used to play it. You need to have mastered major chords, minor chords and 7th chords to take this course.

If you already know how to play a lot of chords but you cannot play by ear or hear chords/chord progressions by ear, or if you don’t understand what or why you play what you play this is a great course option for you.

This course has a HUGE 5 hours and 20 minutes of learning and is meant for those who are ready to learn to understand how music works, to enhance their ability to substitute chords, and to understand what kind of fills and runs you can play because of what key you are in.

This course focuses on learning and understanding the Musical Roman Numeral System in-depth. In the first six lessons, we are going to show you hundreds of chord movements and how to train your brain to recognize them by ear.

We are going to study not just the basic ii, iii, IV, V, vi and vii chords but also the #1, b3, #4, b6, b7 and ALL the different chords that can be used in-between. In the last six lessons, we are going to show you HUNDREDS of chords and how to train your brain to recognize them by ear also.

This course focuses on teaching you ALL the chords that you need to know to play Gospel music…not just majors, minor, 7ths, and suspended 2 chords (we will go over these also). We are going to teach you all the PHAT chords you need to know and WHERE to play them. Then we are going to breakdown different fills, runs and scales you can use with these chords. It will cover 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, augmented and diminished chords and everything in between.

AP 301 will cover Pentecostal Turnarounds, Turnaround Chord Substitutions, Tritones, Tritone Substitutions, Left Hand Tritones, Left Hand Tritone Advanced Substitutions combined with Right Hand Chords, Fills, and Runs. We will also be studying Advanced Chord Positions, and Advanced Chord to Scale matching. This will all be demonstrated through videos and PDF Study Guides. Of course, well-known church songs will be taught along the way to show you how we use all of this in church music. By the time you finish this course, you will be familiar with all of the above, as well as much more.

In AP 302, instructor Richard W. Smith will have a different song in each lesson. In this lesson, there will be a video with Bro. Smith playing that song through several times and then giving detailed explanations of the chords, fills, and runs that he played. You will not want to miss this exciting course!

Richard W. Smith has been playing for so long that he has forgotten how young he was when he started but it was around six years old! He possesses a love for and ability to play a wide variety of musical styles including black gospel, jazz, blues, contemporary gospel, southern gospel, classical, and Latin style.

​​He has been teaching piano lessons for many years to people of all ages. This is why you will find our courses easy and simple to understand, learn, and follow.